Alexarchus of Macedon

{{Short description|4th and 3rd-century BC Greek writer}}

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Alexarchus or Alexarch (Greek: {{lang|grc|Ἀλέξαρχος}}) was an Ancient Macedonian scholar and officer, son of Antipater and brother of Cassander.{{cite encyclopedia | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | title = Alexarchus (1) | editor = William Smith | editor-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 128 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=demosthenes;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=143}} He lived around 350 to 290 BC. He is mentioned as the founder of a utopian town called Ouranopolis, in Chalcidice. Here he is said to have introduced a number of neologisms, which, though very expressive, appear to have been regarded as slang or pedantic.Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae [http://www.attalus.org/old/athenaeus3.html#98 iii. p. 98]{{cite book | last = Gera | first = Deborah Levine | title = Ancient Greek ideas on speech, language, and civilization | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2003 | location = Oxford | pages = 33 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=h5tKJvApybsC | isbn = 0-19-925616-0}}